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Our new Jabber room (and how to connect to it)…

A lot of listeners who come out every Wednesday for the live recording of this humble podcast have taken issue with CoveritLive — or more specifically, the rampant ads that they’re forced to endure while using it. I suggested that we move said chat to the ancient (by Internet standards) medium of IRC, but the only IRC server I know of is freenode, and Dyscultured doesn’t really fit into their stated mandate:

freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities, for not-for-profit organizations and for related communities and organizations.

Yeah, not so much…

So on the suggestion of listener and guest Russell McOrmond I’ve set up a conference room for us at Jabber.org — unlike IRC it allows you to connect via any chat client that supports the XMPP protocol:

Here are a pair of screen grabs that show you how I connected to the room with my GTalk account using Pidgin for Linux. You should be able to achieve similar results with Adium for Mac and Trillian for Windows — but hey, it’s not my fault you chose your desktop OS poorly…

Once you’ve entered your Google Talk credentials and have logged on (mine are hidden — eat shit and die, spammers) just find the command to join a chat or chat room. “Dyscultured” is the room you’re looking for and “Conference.jabber.org” is the domain. No need for a password, at least until the spammers find us. Eat shit and die, spammers…

Alternately you could scroll through the room list at conference.jabber.org and find us there. And we are indeed there — see?